FOXBOROUGH -- The following are Robert Kraft's comments on the signing of Tim Tebow.

Q: What are your thoughts on the signing of Tim Tebow?

RKK: If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management. In the age of the salary cap, whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens. But for me personally, having Tim Tebow on this team, he’s someone who believes in spirituality, he’s very competitive and works hard and has a great attitude and he’s a winner. Having him as part of our franchise is great but he has to compete just like anyone else. We’re blessed to have a lot of people like that, but the fact that spirituality is so important to him is very appealing to me.

Q: What makes this such an appealing situation for him? The professionalism and the Patriot Way, do you think that’s the ideal environment for him?

RKK: You’d have to ask him that. We try to have a certain standard here of what’s right for us. Every interaction I’ve seen and watched, whether he’s in college or when I met him in the draft process, he handles himself in a first-class way. I don’t know anyone who has ever said anything that is not positive about him, people who are objective.

Q: Do you worry about the media frenzy he brings and if it might disrupt the team?

RKK: I’m just excited you’re all back. I’m excited football is back, I really have missed it. It’s going to be tough getting to the end of July after tomorrow. I’m just really excited for this season and excited about the team we’re building.

Q: Four years ago when Michael Vick was a free agent, you said, ‘Why would I ever want to take Tom Brady off the field?’ Assuming you feel that way again, can Tim Tebow find other ways to contribute to the team if Tom Brady is upright?

RKK: In my mind, we have the greatest quarterback of all time on our team and every time he has the ball in his hands, we have a chance to do something great. Nothing has changed in that regard for me.

Q: How much contact have you had with Tim Tebow over the years?

RKK: I like to go to two or three college games, some of my sons and one of my grandsons loves to go. We went down to Florida, I had a chance to see him play. I had a chance to see him play in the college championship game. I remember in the draft process and we’ve had a chance to run into one another. He’s just first class.

Q: What impresses you about Tim Tebow on the field?

RKK: I think he’s hard working and very cooperative. I don’t think there’s any coach who wouldn’t like to have a team full of people like he is. Like [Tom] Brady, he comes out there and works hard or Vince Wilfork, Jerod Mayo. They come in, they work hard, they prepare hard and they’re all business. You can’t get enough people like that on your team. We’re honored that he’s with us.

Q: Josh McDaniels drafted him in Denver. Have you talked to Josh about where Tim Tebow fits in?

RKK: I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don’t question how they do things. We evaluate how they handle it.

Q: I’m just saying out of curiosity as a fan, have you asked him what he can bring to the table?

RKK: You might think if you owned a team and you were in that situation, then you’d talk to him.

Q: I might ask.

RKK: Well, I might follow your lead and do exactly what you say.

Q: How did this signing come about?

RKK: He’s just one of 90 people right now. I wonder if we haven’t talked enough about him. But if you want to keep talking about him, we can do that.

Q: Bill Belichick said the signing was a team decision. Were you part of that decision?

RKK: Yes, he spoke to me about it. Look, life is about collecting good people around you who you like to have with you and who want to win. I think he, like many of our other players, fall in that category. You can’t have enough good people around you. He has the added dimension of spirituality being so important to him and that personally appeals to me a lot.